Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage

This book provides a brief overview of worldwide terrorist activity and reviews technologies and methods for designing blast resistant buildings. These techniques, primarily developed by the military, have applicability and relevance to the design of civilian structures. The volume recommends that a program of applied research and technology transfer be undertaken to hasten the availability and utility of these techniques to the civilian building community.Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive Summary1 Introduction2 Terrorism: Its Motives, Methods, and Immediate Results3 Review of Existing Knowledge for Blast-Effects Mitigation and Protective Design Technologies4 Blast-Effects Mitigation Potential for Commercial Buildings5 Findings and RecommendationsAppendix A: Financial Performance of a Commercial Office BuildingAppendix B: Computer Code Abstracts Provided by Code DevelopersAppendix C: Committee BriefingsAppendix D: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members